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Originally Posted by Marcellus
And if that assumption is true wouldn't the mortality rate be 1/10th of what we know? It seems like these numbers get used both ways all the time. More cases/higher mortality rate etc...
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Well you’d think that but then there’s this...
An estimated additional 180 - 195 deaths per day occurring at home in New York City due to COVID-19 are not being counted in the official figures. "Early on in this crisis we were able to swab people who died at home, and thus got a coronavirus reading. But those days are long gone. We simply don't have the testing capacity for the large numbers dying at home. Now only those few who had a test confirmation *before* dying are marked as victims of coronavirus on their death certificate. This almost certainly means we are undercounting the total number of victims of this pandemic," said Mark Levine, Chair of New York City Council health committee